Quoting Geek Girl : > Well the Phoenix Asterisk Users Group is going to be organizing. I do know > this first hand. =-) > I don't supposed you would care to expand on this? > Alas AdminsParadise is officialy a dead project. > Elastix has hylafax bundeled in thier distro... > The biggest problem right now with trixbox is that there are 4 people that > work on it...2 developers and a sales guy and a Package dude..Oh and dont > get me started on the fact that your trixbox has a cron job that sends your > data to trixbox servers...this was a HUGE fiasco about a month back....This > was previously unreleased info to the community. Fonality has put all of > their money and energy in trixbox PRO..(which is a peice of cr@p) > You can compile on the back end...HA but if they do not support the card you > > cannot configure it in the GUI....and void any waranty bla bla bla..... > The phone home fiasco wasn't the worst of it, they had a mechanism that would have allowed Fonality to download files and/or run arbitrary commands as root. Despite reassurances and disclaimers from Fonality in their public forums, I downloaded PBX in a Flash the same night I read that thread, and I'm not going back. If anyone cares, unlikely as that is, the thread starts here: http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/trixbox-phones-home The ironic thing was, I was only reading the forums after a Trixbox update broke my config. TJ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JD Austin" > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 1:13 AM > Subject: Re: Asterisk (geek girl) > > > >I used trixbox until Fonality took them over. > > The problem with trixbox and it's predecessor asterisk@home was that > > releases were seldom released without major issues. > > I spent more time fixing delivered bugs than anything else. > > The upside of that is that I learned a lot about asterisk and freepbx. > > I got used to immediately upgrading every core component right after > > install. > > Now days I don't use Trixbox at all. > > I've tried several other distributions and for a time liked > > adminsparadise because it bundled hylafax/avantfax. > > They stopped updating so I started updating it myself; now their site is > > gone :( > > I've been using PBX In A flash since it existed and of all the distros > > it's been the most stable out of the box. > > If it had hylafax/avantfax bundled and oslec it would be perfect. > > End point manager was nice though pbxinaflash has command line tools to > > set up > > snom, aastra, grandstream, polycom, cisco, and linksys.. I don't know > > how well they work though. > > > > Anyone know where/when they'll have a Phoenix Asterisk User Group > > meeting? It's been 'organizing' for about a year ;) > > > > JD > > > > Geek Girl wrote: > >> I would like to clarify....trixbox is a great system but the package > >> manager > >> sometimes has very broken things onit. Or you are forced into having the > >> versions of asterisk and zaptel that trixbox wants to release etc. It is > >> a > >> great system if you want a system that you dont change or update often. > >> PBX > >> in a flash builds a generic CentOS base and then runs scripts to build > >> asterisk/zaptel and freePBX (the web GUI) and still has everything but > >> the > >> end point manager. My last comment was a bit calus so I felt the need to > >> clarify a bit...=-) > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Geek Girl" > >> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > >> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:17 PM > >> Subject: Re: Adterisk (geek girl) > >> > >> > >> > >>> That depends lol. If you want a system that is controlled by a package > >>> manager and that most of the time is screwed up go with trixbox... > >>> If you want something that has tons of community support and that you > >>> can > >>> compile with from source and that is still using a CentOS5 base I would > >>> go > >>> with PBX in a flash.... > >>> > >>> The only real thing that trixbox has going for it really is the endpoint > >>> manager... > >>> > >>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ------------------------------------------------- FastQ Communications Providing Innovative Internet Solutions Since 1993 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss